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- ↑ Bill York John Fox, Jr., Appalachian Author 2010 p171b Early in 1898, he had written Tom Page that he had worked his first hour on a Civil War novel. It would be a year before he would write another line after that first chapter of The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come was finished, ..."
- ↑ Now and Then - Volumes 1-4 -1984 · Page 45 "In the 1960s , The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come was in disfavor because of Fox's depiction of black characters such as Snowball "
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